Category: OHSU

After my trip to the OHSU gurus last week, the first assignment I was given was to go to the pharmacy and find out how much two different types of interferon cost. I knew they would be expensive, I know that my insurance company needs to give preapproval for me to even get it, and…

In the beginning, one of the things that I didn’t understand was why I was being sent to a rheumatologist. After all, it was my eyes that were the problem not my joints. Since then, I have learned that uveitis is an inflammatory disease, and in my case, an autoimmune inflammatory disease, not unlike rheumatoid…

A couple of years into the land of autoimmune eye disease, a new doc came to town…well, Bend anyway, which is about 50 miles from where I live. He was a retinologist, or a retina doc. By this time, I had already freaked a few doctors out. They didn’t know what to call what was going…

Dread, that’s what I felt. Pure dread, the pit in your stomach kind, bordering on, “Excuse me, I think I’m going to be sick now.” Entering the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health Sciences University for the first time was like walking onto the set of a science fiction movie. Glass walls, glass floors (thankfully…